Jeremy Slater pushed back against critics of the gay kiss on “Exorcist.”

The showrunner for the Fox drama called out fans who complained about the gay kiss between former priest Marcus Keane (Ben Daniels) and Peter Morrow (Christopher Cousins).

“I saw a couple of homophobes on Twitter and my response is, ‘Good, f--k you. I’m glad you didn’t like it, I’m glad it ruined the show for you. You shouldn’t have good things in your life,’” Slater told Sci-Fi Bulletin.

“If a homophobe can’t watch the show anymore because one of the characters is gay, then I’m glad something good has come out of it. This is 2017 and we still have people throwing temper tantrums online because they don’t want to see gay characters. I think it’s the last gasp of a certain breed of dinosaur that’s on the way out, and let them kick and scream as they go.”

“Exorcist” writer Carlos Foglia made similar comments amid the backlash.

“We'd love more ratings, seriously, but we wayyyy prefer not being s---ty people,” he tweeted.

Slater said this was the first chance he’d gotten to explore homosexuality on the Fox drama, which stars Alfonso Herrera.

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According to GLAAD, only 58 regular characters who appeared on broadcast scripted primetime programming in 2017, 6.4% of the 901 characters on TV, identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer.

Marcus, the “Exorcist” character, had identified as bisexual since the beginning of the show.

“Getting to explore all facets of his sexuality and character is really something that we didn’t get a chance to do in season 1, not because we didn’t want to, but because we didn’t have the time to do it,” Slater told Sci-Fi Bulletin.

“We had little moments of flirting, a little flirty glance in a bar, to clue the audience that this thing that you think you’re seeing is actually there but I knew coming back to season 2 that it was very important and we had to work this into the plot in a natural way and do justice to it. We didn’t want to be coy and just dance around his sexuality for another season.”